Sabrina Vasquez
 

 

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Sabrina Vasquez Sabrina started dancing at the age of seven in ballet with Richard France in Tucson, Arizona. After numerous Nutcracker performances with Tucson Metropolitan Ballet, she went on to join Arizona Dance Theatre under the direction of Jean Paul Comelin as an apprentice. In 1986, Ms. Vasquez joined Ballet Arts as a demi soloist where she received acolytes for various roles such as "The Dying Swan". Looking to expand her dance training to other disciplines, Sabrina continued her training at the University of Arizona. While at the University she performed the modern, ballet, jazz, and mime works of Douglas Nielsen, Ellen Bromberg, Jory Hancock, Melissa Lowe, Susan Quinn Williams, Michael Williams, and C. Nicholas Johnson. In 1995 Ms. Vasquez joined Hubbard Street Dance Chicago where she performed works of Daniel Ezralow, Margo Sappington, and Twyla Tharp. While in Chicago, she also performed with the James Kelly Choreography Project and Chicago Tribune Charities Nutcracker. It was during these years in Chicago that Sabrina immersed herself in the performance art of mime.

C. Nicholas Johnson's Seg way, premiered in Tucson, and followed by performances in Chicago, launched Sabrina into a series of choreographic projects in the discipline of mime theatre. She toured with the Invisible People Mime Theatre to the International Children's Theatre in Hong Kong and is now Associate Artistic director of Alithea Mime Theatre. Vasquez and Alithea have toured to the International Mime Art Festival, Warsaw, Poland, in May 2000, and the First International Mime and Physical Theatre Festival in the Caribbean, San Juan, Puerto Rico, in May 2001. Ms. Vasquez is currently faculty at Wichita State University where she teaches modern, jazz, ballet and choreographs original works for the dance program.

 

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